Colliers’ Randy Gladman sits down with land use expert David Bronskill of Goodmans to unpack the real-world impact.
Ontario’s newest pro-development legislation, Bill 17, the Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025, was tabled by the Ford administration on May 12, 2025, and officially became law on June 5, 2025, when it received Royal Assent. The Province’s aim with this legislation is to streamline housing and infrastructure development by proposing major updates to the Development Charges Act, Planning Act, and Building Code. Among many material changes, it allows residential Development Charges to be deferred until building occupancy, with no interest; caps exclusionary zoning (i.e., affordable housing) requirements; and prohibits municipal by-laws from exceeding provincial standards, all to make new housing less expensive to develop and quicker to build.
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